And I didn’t spontaneous burst into flames or anything!

I’ve been in this hobby since 2009 and I’m still not comfortable with pulling a doll out in public unless I’m with other people that I know. It’s a lot easier when there’s other people who also have Blythes too… But I wasn’t going on vacation with my fellow dolly enthusiasts, but I did have family around instead. The first place that I ever took a doll out was to the aquarium, but there were so many kids around and kids get curious about why some grown up (hah, grown up!) has a dolly that it gets annoying with all the questions. Same with children on playgrounds. Enough complaining about children with curious hands…

It is hard to choose which doll to take on vacation. Because I had to take into consideration how much room I had, I limited myself to one doll and one small bag for doll stuff (clothes, sunglasses, shoes, hair ties). And it’s so hard to decide who to take on vacation. I decided not to take any of the Kenners, then decided against anyone with very long hair… These cuts still left me with five Blythes to choose from. So who did I bring on vacation…? Moxie!

I still have a lot to learn about photography, I know, but at least I had fun!

I try not to. I really do. It’s hard not to play favourites though. I look at my dolls and I do have favourites. There are some that I would rescue before others if I could only grab two on my way out of a house fire (touch wood). Of course, if I had all the time in the world, I would grab all of them on my way out.  I would also have a laundry basket just to swoop them all in along with other necessities that I’d need. But I play favourites. And I’m sure I’m not the only person to do so either… At least I hope not, or else I’d start feeling bad.

Do you play favourites with your Blythes? (Who’s your favourite?)

Or maybe it just seems that way to me? Back in early May I got a bunch of new-to-me doll shoes and I mentioned them on Twitter. Which then turned into me organizing them into plastic boxes and then I did a really stupid thing.

I counted up how many doll shoes I had.

First I counted how many pairs of shoes that I had for Eden Mouse – my little Punkaholic People who only wears pink. She has twelve (12) pairs of shoes! And then I went and counted up all of the other pairs of shoes that I had. I had 38 pairs of ‘other’ shoes, which brought the total up to 50. And then I counted how many pairs of stock Blythe shoes that I had, and I’ve kept all of the stock shoes that came with my dolls, – there was 15 pairs. Which means that I have 65 pairs of shoes. 65 pairs of shoes. I don’t know when this happened, or really how it happened. I know that several pairs came from thrifted dolls, one bunch of shoes came from a sundries sale that I caught a while ago. And then in May I added the 9 pairs of vintage boots.

The fantastic thing about doll shoes is that they’re small, easily organized and stored, and don’t take up so much space. 65 pairs of shoes does not take up nearly as much room as 65 Blythes would. I just need to keep it in perspective sometimes. And it’s also kind of interesting that I’ve got a collection within a collection. My main collection is Blythe, but clearly I’ve also got a collection of shoes.